Senior Staff Engineer - Hybrid Cloud Networking (OSS)

Equinix; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 124,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Equinix is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer, Product Software to lead development of Hybrid Multi‑Cloud Networking open‑source solutions. You will work in a globally distributed team, document features with stakeholders, and help define schedules while advocating best‑practice design and secure, scalable architectures.

You will contribute to CNCF/Linux Foundation efforts, shape product direction, and mentor engineers in Go, Python, C/C++, or Rust, while improving CI/CD with GitHub Actions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing and building highly redundant campus-network infrastructure with IPv4/IPv6, BGP, and SDN.
• 5+ years applying network and security principles in cloud deployments including IAM, VPCs, and VPNs.
• Familiarity with APIs and designing solutions that leverage interfaces for network automation, dashboards, or monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Work in a globally distributed development team on Hybrid Multi‑Cloud Networking open-source software.
• Cultivate Equinix’s open-source presence in organizations and standards bodies (CNCF, Linux Foundation).
• Interact with stakeholders to understand and document product features.
• Provide level‑of‑effort estimates for the product backlog.
• Work with project managers and product teams to define schedules.
• Assist in evaluating new technologies to meet roadmap goals.
• Advocate and follow best‑practice design and development standards.

Skills

Go

Python

C/C++

Rust

APIs

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

Equinix is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer, Product Software to lead development of Hybrid Multi‑Cloud Networking open‑source solutions. You will work in a globally distributed team, document features with stakeholders, and help define schedules while advocating best‑practice design and secure, scalable architectures.

You will contribute to CNCF/Linux Foundation efforts, shape product direction, and mentor engineers in Go, Python, C/C++, or Rust, while improving CI/CD with GitHub Actions.